Summary
Laurence Stokes is a frontend developer with 12 years’ experience building robust web applications across finance, ecommerce, streaming, and healthcare. He has driven migrations to TypeScript, introduced comprehensive testing practices (including RTL/Jest and Cypress), and built CI pipelines and microfrontend architectures at firms like Goldman Sachs, Gymshark, and StreamElements. Comfortable across the full stack, Laurence pairs strong frontend skills in JavaScript/TypeScript with practical backend and DevOps experience—having prototyped backend-for-frontend services and Dockerized deployments. He has a security-minded background from an early internship in penetration testing and machine-learning tooling, and a track record of championing developer workflows and automation. Based in the UK, he maintains a public portfolio and active GitHub, and is particularly interested in Web/Network Security and applied ML/AI. Colleagues rely on him to pioneer tooling and testing standards that scale teams as well as codebases.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Birmingham
4 GCE A-levels Mathematics A Geography A Psychology A ICT B (completed 2 years early), 4 GCE A-levels Mathematics A Geography A Psychology A ICT B (completed 2 years early) at St. Christopher's School, Bahrain